Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction

black cloth, gilt spine,pp., xi, : illustrations, portraits, 1st Harvard University Press ed., a fine copy of the 1st edition. Schumpeter made his mark as the prophet of incessant change. Drawing on all of Schumpeter's writings, including many intimate diaries and letters never before used, this biography paints the full portrait of a magnetic figure who aspired to become the world's greatest economist, lover, and horseman-and admitted to failure only with the horses. No one understood this bedrock economic principle better than Joseph A. Schumpeter. "Creative destruction," he said, is the driving force of capitalism. Described by John Kenneth Galbraith as "the most sophisticated conservative" of the twentieth century,

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ISBN: 0674025237

ISBN-13: 9780674025233

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Year: 2007

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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